I started a development diary over on the javagaming.org forums. Go and take a look and comment if you so please.
I would have done it here, but seeing as it’s more of interest to developers and nerds of all sorts, I thought it would reach a wider and more interested kind of audience over on JGO.
The online hiscores tables in Ultratron and Titan Attacks have recently been plagued by naughty potty mouth people filling them with all sorts of profanity and unpleasantness. Well, that’s not very nice, is it? Especially as I know who’s done it as well.
A few parents have complained, rightly so, about the profanity, and so the hiscores server has been tweaked in a similar manner to the web page. It’s easy to defeat of course but it’d be nice if you just kept the bad language off the hiscores and remember that we’ve got 5yr olds playing the games too.
And no, it doesn’t cope with Scunthorpe very well.
Linux users rejoice! We’ve fixed the Linux versions of Titan Attacks and Ultratron. By the miracle of Java Web Start, you can just click those links there and all will be well with the world.
Well, here’s a little announcement to the world in general.
You may or may not know that Chaz and me write Puppygames just for the love of it in our meagre spare time, and we’ve barely ever made a bean from it. In fact to date I think we haven’t actually made a profit. Impressive!
Well, this year, we’re going to go full-time at producing games and selling them, and that means quitting our day jobs and having no money to live on. Unless, of course, we actually start making some money selling games.
So all you lucky people out there who bought Titan and Ultratron at the bargain price of $9.95 – you did wisely, because as of this very moment, they’re now at the more sensible industry standard price of $19.95. Hopefully that’ll see us making a little money to live off of.
The next step is the ambitious release of no less than 3 more mini-games next year in the same style and general mould of Titan and Ultratron.
And sometime during the year we’ve got to work out a few business arrangements with our two favourite underdog portals. More news on that as it happens, but largely speaking, we’re delegating the marketing function to some other people who enjoy doing it.
Happy new year!
Hola, I’m Kev (sometimes seen as kevglass roaming around various forums) and I’ve been graced with posting privileges here on the illustrious PuppyBlog. You lucky lucky people!
Well, well, well. Finally Tiltilation is live and “out there”. After years of pushing out demos and free games in the Java world, I’ve decided to dip my toe into the pond of indie games. The great people here at Puppy Games have been nice enough to help me out, so a big thanks to them.
In Tiltilation you guide a ball round a level to collect the tokens and get to the exit. “Thats It!?” I hear you cry. Of course not! There are a tonne of features including electric fences, pinball bouncers, teleports and of course the evil Fuggles! All topped off with the twist that instead of controlling the ball – you control the board, tilting it to cause the ball to roll about, teetering on the edges of the level. In the full version you’ve got 6 unlockable balls (ooer) and 64 levels of fun.
So what now? My first game is out there, sales are slowly rolling in. I’ve suddenly got free development time … what next? Well, I’m working on a new freeware game based around the classic board game SpaceHulk, development shots below. Let’s also not forget the Java 4K games contest is coming soon, I’ll be trying to get at least a couple of entries in this year – including one that works a bit like LocoRoco for the PSP, called Loopy Gloop (very much a work in progress).
naughty words now filtered to eliminate excessive effing and jeffing.
stay tuned for monster mash update.
Charlotte has left me. Her rings lie by the phone alongside 12 years of memories.
I don’t know what to do. I just don’t know what to do.
Found this, posted on Javagaming.org. Claims it’s based on Every Extend but I wouldn’t know.
What makes the game is the Ween soundtrack. As everyone should know, Ween are the greatest rock band in the universe.
As recently discussed on this thread on Javagaming.org, we are holding a little competition for Java developers. Actually we will open it up to non-Java developers too, but there is a catch, as you will see.
Here are the rules:
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines!
Hello! Brendan here, but you may know me as Shinji16, the musical mastermind and general whipping boy for Puppy Games. I’m hoping to give some decent coverage of various indie games on the scene, specializing in Japanese style shooters. If you ever find anything that you think I should mention, drop me a line at shinji@thieves.org
That’s all for now… I’ll be back soon. ‘Til then take care and be safe.
Well, there we have it, only a year after we started writing it (under the working name of “Puppy Invaders Deluxe”). Unfortunately (fortunately) Ultratron got in the way in the middle of it. There’s going to be a 1.1 patch in a week or two which will address a few of the difficulty concerns. It’s a bloody difficult game to balance the difficulty withe.
The real problem we face now is what game to write next??? There are ideas about a scrolling dot-munching shooter, akin to Time Bandit on the ST and Amiga. Imagine Pac-Man with guns and the odd puzzle and lots of monsters. But that won’t be all that accessible we don’t think and it’s going to involve a really big map and that sort of thing takes ages and ages to do.
…and here’s a sneak glimpse at what we’ve been busy with – Titan Attacks!
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